Art Against Despair

Cameron, Julia

A year's worth of creative inspiration from "The Queen of Change" (The New York Times) The Daily Artist's Way is an inspirational collection of 365 daily reminders for a creative life, all from Julia Cameron, whose book The Artist's Way has transformed the lives of millions. Now, readers can easily and immediately apply Artist's Way practices to their lives day by day with this...

Laurence Leamer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote's Women comes an astonishing account of the revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he deemed his "Superstars"."Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil," Andy Warhol confessed, "of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them." Obsessed w...

Benoît Gallot / Casanave, Daniel / Arielle Aaronson

From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world--a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways. "Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife."--from the New York Times prof...

Cameron, Julia

'The Artist's Way is like Dry January for creative types and artists swear by it' DEFECTOR'Morning pages are the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found' TIM FERRISS'Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love' ELIZABETH GILBERT'Morning pages has become a household name, a shorthand for unlocking your creative potential' VOGUETHE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK TO...

Ken Hollings

The third and final volume of Ken Hollings' personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics.In Paradise, Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, "King of Rock 'n' Roll" Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths ...

Deepak Shenoy

Forget step-by-step instructions — you're ready to design your own LEGO creations! The LEGO Builder's Handbook is the only guide you need for building totally out-of-this-world, wholly original models.What's the right scale to use for your LEGO model? How does SNOT, also known as sideways building, work? What's the trick to achieving smoother tapers? How do you design a LEGO sc...

The School Of Life

A therapeutic and inspiring workbook with exercises to build confidence The difference between a successful and a disappointing life often comes down to a critical ingredient that we overlook at our peril: confidence. This is a book with a practical purpose: to take us through exercises that help us rediscover the confidence we all already have inside us--the confidence that we...

The School Of Life

A journal to help us process our lives--from The School of Life's line of beautiful, elegant journals The Self-Reflection Journal is the first in a new range of guided journals from The School of Life, that uses a series of repeated questions to help us think about what we really want, what we are actually feeling and what might be holding us back from our goals. Each question ...

The School Of Life

Our parents are a huge deal: and no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (our love stories, our attitudes, our self-esteem) is crucially connected to our relationships with our origin families.Following on from the bestselling How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our par...

The School Of Life

A thoughtful workbook with exercises to help you find a meaningful career. Following the series of bestselling guided journals - The Couples Workbook and The Calm Workbook - The Career Workbook is here to help you build a personalized and realistic list of your strengths and goals in order to help you find a career that can satisfy both. The book will help you... * Establish a...

The School Of Life

A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us.Along the way, we travel around the world, from the very beginnin...

The School Of Life

An exploration of the many reasons to remain hopeful in the face of life's disappointments and challenges. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so much to offer us; why there are still so many reasons to be hopeful. Here is a collection o...